Blastronaut

If you've played it, liked it and want it, it seems like a no brainer to me. That said I've never managed to marry guitar purchases with sensible financial decisions.

Is this the same V you mentioned a few months ago? I'm guessing they're much rarer than a Custom Shop Tele, especially a lefty model, I'd just be concerned it would be a bit harder to shift if you didn't get on with it. Im probabaly the last person you should listen to on this though. My go-to advice when I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about is just have a wank and then go for a drink. If it still seems like a good idea then go for it, life's too short. In your shoes I'd probably want a shot of the V first but I wouldn't look at it as a financial decision.

If you can solder a little, pedal kits from somewhere like Fuzzdog might be worth a look. If you just want to read a bit about it what's going on in circuits there's websites like this that go quite in depth on the function of each component in some Amps and pedal circuits. https://www.electrosmash.com/dallas-rangemaster @Andrew no idea what it's worth. Even if it is worth as much as the Tele, something makes me think a lefty V would be a lot harder to shift in future than a lefty Custom Shop Tele.

Ha. might just be an pedal impedance issue if just re-arranging the pedal chain solved it. If it makes you feel any better I lose the fucking plot at my pedal board all the time. Last time was down to me forgetting I have buffer/splitter hidden underneath thats always on, but I'd borrowed the DC jack to test something the night before.

If it works for you, go for it man. If you can find an old working Ibanez CP9, that might be worth a good look as an alternative. It's pretty the same circuit but with a little more funtionality and doesn't kill your high-end in the same way the Dyna-Comp does. Not the CP10 though, that was a totally different circuit.

Aye. It wouldn't be my first choice to solve the issue he's describing but there's a lot of variables and it's all subjective. Nae right or wrong, all just preference. I just noticed @Tom saying that he'd tried his mates mxr and loved it. Fair fucks, I feel like a bit of a dick I hadn't noticed that earlier. If it works it works. Still interested to hear if it was the Dyna Comp, which still sell 50 years down the line and (probabaly) for good reason. The helix patch @Gemmill mentioned looks like it emulates a totally different box of frogs from your usual 70's era guitar compressor pedal. More late 60's high-end rack mount gear that would have been used in post-production, not something commoners like us would have been feeding into the front of guitar amps back in the day.

Is it the Dyna Comp? I'm not gonna talk you out of buying one but you'll find it kills a lot of high end, especially if your a fairly high-gain guy. I'm not a huge compressor guy, I use quite a lot of gain (to cover up my ham-fisted playing) so my guitar sound is already pretty squished by the time it hits the amp. I've played with the Dyna Comp and other really similar circuits (Ross and Ibanez from the same era) and some Optical compressors, never got on massively with any of them. I think if I could pick like Paul Gilbert I use a bit less gain and might need one but that's an absolute pipe dream for me.

@Tom I've never played much with particularly hot pickups, was just thinking out loud. I'm not sure a compressor pedal would be the first thing I reach for to tame them. Hate to be that guy but distortion is compression. I'm just skeptical a compressor will solve whatever bugs you about the Charvel.

Calling it now, CT will be magnet fishing within the year.

I honestly think you'll be fine this season by just focussing on making sure your admin and legal staff are a step above their counterparts up here at Hibs. On that note, your away top for this season is weirdly Hibs-y looking. Hope to fuck it's not an omen.

My other half has been playing Fontaines DC stuff a lot lately. I couldn't be arsed with them for the first few weeks but I've been beaten into submission and somehow managed to convince myself they're a bit like what would've happened if Spacemen3 were Irish, 30 years younger, and more into uppers. Anything for an easy life.

Tried lowering the pickups a bit?

Christ. Shame for the guy. MND is horrific. My mates dad was fairly recently diagnosed and they're all going through the wringer, struggling to keep him comfortable and involved while watching him lose all his motor skills at a really frightening rate. Must be even more devastating for someone this young. Maybe I'm blinkered or don't pay enough attention but it's not a disease I've ever heard talked about much, bar the sad last few years of Fernando Ricksen.

Synced to the Wizard of Oz

It's not just food, man. We've got a home bargains less than a five minute away, most the prices have jumped a good 50%, right down to shit like toilet roll. Costs me 50% more to wipe my arse than it did in March. Curiously though, the price of alcohol hasn't moved much. Puts me in mind of my late grandfathers favourite saying (which admittedly always drove me mental): "if you can save 50% on everything you buy, you'll have twice as much money". It's just occurred to me that he'd probabaly been using that phrase since the last time we saw inflation as extreme as we're seeing now. I'm honestly not sure what we can do about it. Even if we learned to protest like the French I doubt it would make much of a difference, I think we're already too far gone. Our current chancellor of the exchequer is now aiming for the PM position with a "let's fix the economy" slogan.

Just gone and fucking jinxed myself, looks like we'll be moving in the next few months too.

Love it. Nice collection. Not sure if I've seen an SNK cabinet since the 90's. That looks newer, no way that white plastic shell hasn't discoloured more if it's pushing 30 years old. Surprised to see that NBA logo on screen, just naturally assumed it would be Metal Slug. Also liking the framed John Carpenter vinyl. Jon Poole approves!

Got me curious, do you make pinball or arcade machines or just a big fan of them? Nowt wrong with just collecting them, just curious as I nearly went down the road of building arcade machines about 10 years but the legality of it all meant there was no money in it and I'm basically not allowed hobbies that don't at least pay for themselves anymore, (unless you count drinking too much).

My sympathies @Andrew. Flitting is an absolute nightmare. I'm really dreading the next time we have to move. I still haven't recovered from the last time and that was ten years ago. Hope it goes smoothly man. @Tom thats a beautiful guitar. Wish they'd put a proper T.O.M bridge and tailpaice on it tbh but it's well out of my budget so I'm not sure why I care. Mind you were saying you were struggling for high gain tones with the P90's in that Riviera? It just occurred to me that Bill Steer was playing LP juniors all the time in the 90's with Carcass.

Temperature and wind-chill factor aside, that neck of the woods always reminds me of that scene in Independence Day. Absolutely. EK was probably both their curse and blessing. Psychocandy would have been a totally different animal if they were based a few miles up the road in sunny Bathgate.

Aye that's fair. East Kilbride is Glasgow's Denny. Always a dark cloud over those parts.

Where the fuck are you? I've got three fans on, all the windows open and it's still 26° in our living room. I'm gonna have to guess Denny. It's always dark, cold and miserable in Denny.

Jesus man, they genuinely can't cope without you for half a shift? Fair play, I'd struggle to cope with that level of responsibility. How do you even manage to get a lunch break?

Surely you didn't actually just go home and resume your working day from there? That's literally your boss handing you a get out of work free card.